of _twenty-nine_ persons at 5_s._
per diem each: viz. Zachary Worth, David Salisbury, Peter
Llewellen, Edward Cooke, Richard Stephens, Stephen Montague, Thomas
Powell; Henry Symball, Joseph Butler, Thomas Pidcott, Richard
Freeman, George Hussey, Roger Read, Edward Osbaldiston, William
Feild, Robert Cooke (or his widow), Thomas Blagden, William Ledsom,
Edward Cooke; Edward Tytan, Thomas Baker, John Bradley, Nicholas
Hill, Anthony Compton, Joshua Leadbetter, Alexander Turner, Thomas
Wright, William Geering, and Edward Bridges. The occupations of the
first seven are not described, but they were probably under-clerks;
the next twelve were "messengers"; the last ten "serjeant deputies"
under Dendy as Serjeant-at-Arms. The sums ordered to be paid to
them vary from L4 to L42 5_s._--_Forty-four_ more persons
are added more miscellaneously, with the sums due to them
respectively. Among these I may note the following:--"George Vaux,
_Housekeeper_" (L69 9_s._ 8_d._), "Mr. Nutt, the
_Barge-keeper_" (L65), "Mr. Embrey, _Surveyor_" (L140
12_s._ 6_d._), and "Mr. Kinnereley,
_Wardrobe-keeper_" (L140 12_s._ 6_d._).[1]

[Footnote 1: From Warrant Book in Record Office. On comparing the
list of persons in this warrant with that in the extract from the
Order Books of Oliver's Council of date April 17, 1655 (pp. 177-179),
and with lists in a former Council minute of date Feb. 3, 1653-4, and
in a Money Warrant of Oliver of same date (Vol. IV. pp. 575-578), it
will be seen that there had been changes in the staff meanwhile.
Milton, Scobell, Gualter Frost, Serjeant Dendy, Housekeeper Vaux,
Bargemaster Nutt, and about a dozen of the clerks, messengers, and
serjeant-deputies remain (one of the former clerks, Matthew
Fairbank, now promoted from his original 6_s._ 8_d._ a day
to 20_s._ a day); but Thurloe, Jessop, Meadows, two younger
Frosts, and a good many others are gone, while new men are Deane,
Robinson, Kingdon, Morland, Marvell, and others. Morland, as we
know, had been brought in a while ago to assist Thurloe; and his
salary, we now see, was larger than Milton's.--When Milton's salary
was reduced, in April 1655, it was arranged that it should be a
life-pension, and payable out of the Exchequer; but the present
warrant Directs payment to him, as to the rest, out of the
Council's contingencies. It would seem, therefore, that Oliver's
arrangement for him had not taken effect, or had been cancelled by
the